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Quick Search     Advanced Search   2018 Vol.21 Issue.2 Published 2018-03-31 1 The Secret of the Desk: The Desk Arrangement in the Classroom Space and Its Educational Significance Wang Shuo, Xiong Heping The space and power of desk shape arrangement reveals the implied power mechanism of the classroom. The classroom has the characteristics of spatiality，built by the participation of multi-disciplinary. The objects placed in classroom and its significance of pedagogy, are the embodiment of the classroom’s spatiality. The classroom space’s power logic mainly displays in three aspects: platform’s ontological status; the relationship between desk and the platform; the administrative attribute of the desk. The specification of desk is the symbol of the order of teaching. Desks decides the way of physical activity and determines the activities’ style and scope of hands, feet and other parts of the body. Desk’ s function is alienated to force the body to study from supplementary. For a long time, the reciprocal relationship between desk and body is a mirror of the curriculum reform. The liberation of body is the direction and purpose of curriculum reform. Paying attention to student’s body of phenomenological sense experience is the trend of curriculum reform. The desk’s space restruction in teaching of the group cooperation, and the practice of deliberative knowledge provides a new perspective for the curriculum reform. In fact, space itself is a kind of education. Students perceive, experience and get knowledge in the space. The classroom space should not be cold. It should have the temperature in the phenomenological sense. Students can have a good experience in the space. The desk is the important object in the classroom and an essential tool for students in school. Different arrangement of the desk embodies different levels of the bondage of body. Different teaching organization form need the desk arrangement. The rectangular arrangement of desk and uniform arrangement of seedbed type are passed to students with a teaching order, to regulate the student's talks and behaviors. The new round of basic education curriculum reform advocates cooperative exploration and diligently using your hands to study. The release of the student's hands and feet is the breakthrough point to liberate student’s body. In fact, it implies a strong demand to the change of desk arrangement. To analyze desk’s discipline function and arrangement in the classroom teaching, we can vaguely insight the students' fate of knowledge and realistic situation of curriculum reform. 2018 Vol. 21 (2): 1-48 [Abstract] ( 1743 ) [HTML KB] [ PDF 5160KB] ( 546 ) 49 New Interpretation of Teacher's Professionalism: An Empirical Study on Teachers ' Social Status Identification Ding Gang, Wang Dushen This study adopted empirical research paradigm to explore the connotation of teachers’ professionalism from the perspective of teaching practice. Using the data from a large sample nationwide survey, we investigated the relationship between the practical teaching experience of teachers and teaching administrators and their identification of teachers' social image and position in order to analyze how these educators understand the professionalism of themselves. The results showed that the normal college graduates (new teachers) and teaching administrators identify with “engineers of souls” and “professional”, which locate at both endpoints of the dimension of ethical value versus social status, and the identification of teachers' social images are significantly related to their practical educating experience. The comprehensive analysis indicated that the professionalism in teachers and teaching administrators' understanding is still influenced by traditional professional specialization criterion, which takes the systemic knowledge, professional skills as the main connotation of teachers’ “professionalism”. But meanwhile, their practical teaching experience also urges them to bring the ethical connotation of educating practice wisdom and the affection aspect in teaching process into their professionalism. Therefore, while teachers and teaching administrators do adhere to the education value pursuit itself, they also put forward the appeal to the status of social respect for their “professionalism” at the same time. 2018 Vol. 21 (2): 49-92 [Abstract] ( 1736 ) [HTML KB] [ PDF 4164KB] ( 503 ) 93 “Literacy”：Top-down Universalization, Bottom-up Promotion and Retaining in Village: A Case of School System Adjustment and Its Historical Change in a Rural County in China Li Tao The author conducted a complicated historic review of the evolution of the township schools against the background of the national and societal structural changes as well as educational policy evolution during the 115 years from 1990 to 2014. The review found that the rural schools, regarded as center for “education” and “civilization” in the underclass field, experienced aggravated decline due to both external “interferences” and internal “deviations”. The phenomenon of massive consolidation of rural school in modern China is named “bottom-up literacy promotion” by scholars, an opposite to the historical phenomenon of massive construction of rural schools, known as “top-down literacy universalization,” has led to educational dilemma in the underclass. Based on discourse analysis and field observation with various participants on various field sites, the author found that the “bottom-up literacy promotion” phenomenon is resulted from both external social incentives and internal educational motives. The former include village culture subaltern to the urban culture, the breakdown of the knowledge and power in villages, the stratification of peasent group and the difficulties of help, educational poverty under the consumption mentality, while the latter include low attraction to rural teachers, lack of staff quota, and excessive administrative control. 2018 Vol. 21 (2): 93-122 [Abstract] ( 1747 ) [HTML KB] [ PDF 3028KB] ( 412 ) 123 “Opium in Gentry Class”: Young people, Family and Modern Knowledge Transformation Shen Zhangming Liang Qichao saw the opportunities for young people to surpass forefathers in the perspective of West study, especially in the view of the scientific knowledge. He put forward “On Our Young China” that lead young people to self-reliance with the pursuit of national prosperity. However attention was also placed on that old people asked their descendant to take opium in order to control them, young people took opium at the cost of their family and spouse. Liang Qichao, in his later years, re-emphasized the virtue and reconstructed the view of knowledge. 2018 Vol. 21 (2): 123-148 [Abstract] ( 1742 ) [HTML KB] [ PDF 2887KB] ( 543 ) 149 The Unanticipated Consequence of "Son Does Not Follow in His Father’s Footsteps"--A Narrative Study on the Growth of Rural Kids in High Academic Achievement Cheng Meng A group of rural kids who born after China’s Reform and Opening-up get access to the life of class traveler through keep climbing on the ladder of education. This paper defines these rural kids as “college material”. This research tries to interpret the unanticipated consequences in the process of getting high academic achievements and class travelling. In the process of climbing up academic ladder, “college materials” produce a complex structure of feelings which focuses on rural background, results in constraint body and mind and extends a relationship structure with both love and hate. The cultural production of underclass is very complex. A dark side accompanies with high academic achievements. Family experience is very important in exploring schooling experience of “college material” and their cultural production. 2018 Vol. 21 (2): 149-185 [Abstract] ( 1823 ) [HTML KB] [ PDF 3654KB] ( 783 )

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